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MaxwellGT2000 on 13 December 2009
psrock said:
it seems that 2million is the big number for FFXIII to reach to be considered successful , right.

With 4 million ps3 USERS, half of them would need to pick that game up.



Good luck with that.

Exactly, factor in that home consoles as a whole isn't doing that great right now, I'm wondering how this first week will turn out, the FF series has been on the decline in Japan, changing platforms that isn't the most popular, there are a lot of different variables over the previous gensand if it sells out I'm certain they have another shipment ready to go at a moments notice.



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Gilgamesh on 13 December 2009

Limiting a main Final Fantasy game to a million shipped first week??

That does not make any sense, I'm sure pre-orders will be around a million when it's released.



kingofwale on 13 December 2009
psrock said:
kingofwale said:
ChrisIsNotSexy said:
psrock said:
it seems that 2million is the big number for FFXIII to reach to be considered successful , right.

With 4 million ps3 USERS, half of them would need to pick that game up.



Good luck with that.

Well noone knows how many of them are FF fans,maybe all of them are lol

Didn't Halo 3 do just that??? (and this is not counting all the RRoD xbox, most likely the realistic attachment rate is in the high 60%)

oh Jesus!

FFXIII cost almost $100 in Japan, and PS3 userbase is very different than the Halo fans in AMERICA. Anything over 1 million is fine with me, I have a feeling this game will havesomething FF games never had " LEGS"

is it really?? PS3 owners in Japan vs xbox box owner in America???

also, the 'high' price of FFXIII is only so due to your conversion using the extremely weak US dollars.



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Khuutra on 13 December 2009
kingofwale said:
psrock said:

oh Jesus!

FFXIII cost almost $100 in Japan, and PS3 userbase is very different than the Halo fans in AMERICA. Anything over 1 million is fine with me, I have a feeling this game will havesomething FF games never had " LEGS"

is it really?? PS3 owners in Japan vs xbox box owner in America???

also, the 'high' price of FFXIII is only so due to your conversion using the extremely weak US dollars.

Again: I'm pretty much positive that Dragon Quest and Final Fantasy always have a premium price attached to their names.



ChrisIsNotSexy on 13 December 2009
darthdevidem01 said:

Ideally I would have hoped for a 1.5 Million Week 1.

In the end due to strong PS3 sales & big releases next year, FF13 should crawl to the 2 Million mark. Then possible BEst releases & an Xbox 360 version in Japan should bring its total to around 2.5 - 2.8 Million.

These sales aren't disappointing at all, in fact they are very good, but they fall short of my predictions by just 100K - 200K

EDIT:

Also this makes MGS4 sales seem very impressive, the franchise faced hardly any decline from PS3's userbase

Darth that article could be fake for all we know



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Acevil on 13 December 2009
psrock said:
kingofwale said:
ChrisIsNotSexy said:
psrock said:
it seems that 2million is the big number for FFXIII to reach to be considered successful , right.

With 4 million ps3 USERS, half of them would need to pick that game up.



Good luck with that.

Well noone knows how many of them are FF fans,maybe all of them are lol

Didn't Halo 3 do just that??? (and this is not counting all the RRoD xbox, most likely the realistic attachment rate is in the high 60%)

oh Jesus!

FFXIII cost almost $100 in Japan, and PS3 userbase is very different than the Halo fans in AMERICA. Anything over 1 million is fine with me, I have a feeling this game will havesomething FF games never had " LEGS"

I don't know if it will have those kind of "legs". I think it will just be more so than previous. I mean if last week I did hear bunch of "certain console" fans tell me that JRPG never have legs.



 

dolemit3 on 13 December 2009
kingofwale said:
psrock said:
kingofwale said:
ChrisIsNotSexy said:
psrock said:
it seems that 2million is the big number for FFXIII to reach to be considered successful , right.

With 4 million ps3 USERS, half of them would need to pick that game up.



Good luck with that.

Well noone knows how many of them are FF fans,maybe all of them are lol

Didn't Halo 3 do just that??? (and this is not counting all the RRoD xbox, most likely the realistic attachment rate is in the high 60%)

oh Jesus!

FFXIII cost almost $100 in Japan, and PS3 userbase is very different than the Halo fans in AMERICA. Anything over 1 million is fine with me, I have a feeling this game will havesomething FF games never had " LEGS"

is it really?? PS3 owners in Japan vs xbox box owner in America???

also, the 'high' price of FFXIII is only so due to your conversion using the extremely weak US dollars.

The high price is not just the Yen-to-dollar conversion. It is pricier than any other PS3 game in Japan by over 1000 Yen.



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FinalEvangelion on 13 December 2009

FF7 and 10 both did 40% of their user base the first week on their respective platforms. It sounds like 1.15 million will ship the first day. 1 million before release day, 150k on release day, and 150k over the rest of the week. The last 150k could be lowered or raised. My prediction of 1.6 million may not go as I wanted.

I guess that means 40k Lightning bundles.



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Demotruk on 13 December 2009
psrock said:

oh Jesus!

FFXIII cost almost $100 in Japan, and PS3 userbase is very different than the Halo fans in AMERICA. Anything over 1 million is fine with me, I have a feeling this game will havesomething FF games never had " LEGS"

Really, why? Legs are usually a product of being much better than expected, having a viral element, or reaching a new market. (Edit: Or a by-product of a console doing well for some other reason)

 

Will FFXIII have anything like that? It's hard for games that are hyped as the second coming to have anything other than a frontloaded sales pattern, and this is Japan we're talking about.

 

If it makes 2 million in Japan, it will be done very quickly. The only possiblity for this is that retailers are being extremely conservative because they've had a very bad year, the preorders are high, after all.



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psrock on 13 December 2009
Acevil said:
psrock said:
kingofwale said:
ChrisIsNotSexy said:
psrock said:
it seems that 2million is the big number for FFXIII to reach to be considered successful , right.

With 4 million ps3 USERS, half of them would need to pick that game up.



Good luck with that.

Well noone knows how many of them are FF fans,maybe all of them are lol

Didn't Halo 3 do just that??? (and this is not counting all the RRoD xbox, most likely the realistic attachment rate is in the high 60%)

oh Jesus!

FFXIII cost almost $100 in Japan, and PS3 userbase is very different than the Halo fans in AMERICA. Anything over 1 million is fine with me, I have a feeling this game will havesomething FF games never had " LEGS"

I don't know if it will have those kind of "legs". I think it will just be more so than previous. I mean if last week I did hear bunch of "certain console" fans tell me that JRPG never have legs.

I expect the userbase of the PS3  to grow a little bit better next year, a couple people will pick it up.



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